The Metro Council will defer the appointments of nine convention center authority members tonight at Mayor Karl Dean’s request, Dean spokeswoman Janel Lacy said today.

Three of the nine appointees will be out of town tonight, so they couldn’t be confirmed by the council until a later date anyway. Some council members also have complained about the resolution Dean’s office filed, which would have had the council vote on all nine appointees as a group.

Lacy said the mayor’s offfice will drop that resolution and file nine new ones, allowing up-or-down votes on each of Dean’s appointees at the council’s Oct. 6 meeting. The authority will oversee construction and operation of the proposed, $635 million Music City Center.

“Since this is the biggest project this administration is going to do, we want to make sure the council is comfortable,” Lacy said.